cool your jets

Sam over at Strange Harvest just blew my mind with a link to Jet Junk. Man oh man, I wish I had found this fanzine in time to include it in the show. Perhaps they'll send a copy of issue number two on speculative architectures, over in time to sneak it in later in the month.

UPDATE: Junk Jets editors FedExed a copy last night. Yes, it will make the show in time for the opening!

Here's their statement. I not only love their trashy gif aesthetic, but also the collaborative ethos and cross-platform format.

Junk Jet is a fanzine, a collaborative format set up to discuss speculative works on topics of electronic media, aesthetics, and on architectures. It is interested in counter works (and counter counter works) of counter aesthetics, tunneling mainstream (above all architects', designers', and artists' stream) practices that show lack of any irony or fiction. It is about wild forms and found objects, about weird theories and (small) narratives, anti-fashions and non-styles, about exploring do-it-yourself works, accidental outcomes, deviant and normal aesthetic forms that result from jammed common practices, misused media, and subverted customary tools. It is about cultivating an anti heart by “introducing noise to signal”. Whereas n°1 °.° was focused on the topic of music, or better: noise, n°2 °.° is especially into architectural and spatial works. Of course it is not reduced to this.

Junk Jet will again be both an online publication (including movies, images, software, and pdfs), exploiting all possibilities of multimedia, and an extravagant lo-fi paper publication (including special gifts) on a non-commercial scale, challenging the online version.

Comments

[sam]

Its great that this micro-drama had such a dramatic and happy ending! Good luck with the show.